Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original ManuscriptsWhite, Andrew Dickson
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Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts
White, Andrew Dickson
Inquisition -- Spain -- History -- Sources
Answered, that she had been told that Francisco Brich, _alias_ Lo Avi
Brich, and Francisco Blaqueire, stocking weavers, in the Hospicio of
this city, were Protestants; and that the said Blaqueire had been
baptized since his residence in Spain, but she knew not in what Parish.
Also, that he could not live with his parents because they were
Protestants. His parents live in France.
Questioned, if she knew whether the said Blaqueire had embraced any
heresy.
Answered, that she only knew he was a Protestant, according as she was
informed by her mother, now dead, who asserted that she was unwilling
to let her other daughter marry the said Blaqueire because he was a
Protestant. The same assertion she has heard from many other persons;
she could not remember whom, but believed they were people of the vulgar
sort.
Questioned, if she had told this to any other person.
Answered, that what had been told her, she had told to others, but to
whom she could not say.
Here closed the deposition of the second of July, and on the fourth of
the same month, the said Narcisa Fabra Catala y Pinsach appeared again.
Questioned, if she had anything to add to the declaration which she had
made against Francisco Blaqueire.
Answered, No.
Questioned, what was the personal appearance of this man.
Answered, that he was about thirty years of age, of a moderate stature,
and corpulent; that she did not know his birthplace, only that he was a
Frenchman; that he was desirous of marrying, and that he was a stocking
weaver, but in what factory he worked she did not know.
Questioned, why she supposed the abovenamed Brich to be a Protestant.
Answered, that she did not know it for certain, but had heard of it in
the same manner in which she learned the history of Francisco Blaqueire,
and that perhaps she had told it to others.
She was then informed that information had been received and sworn to in
the Holy Office, that in a certain conversation a certain person
observed that Avi Brich appeared to be an honest man, to which she
replied, ‘He is not an honest man, but a Jew.’ And it being remarked
that in Spain they must confess and partake of the communion once in
each year, she replied, that in order to deceive the spies, they did
this not merely once, but two or three times a year.
Therefore, in the name of God Our Lord and his Glorious and Blessed
Mother Our Lady the Virgin, she was exhorted to bethink herself and
declare the whole truth.
Answered, that she did not remember to have said so, but had heard say
that if he had died in the Hospital, where he lay very sick about two
years, he would not have been buried in consecrated grounds. At present
she could not recollect who made this assertion, but she believed they
were Frenchmen.
Questioned, what was his age and personal appearance.
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